Tauranga Apology
In 2018 the Anglican Church made a formal apology to the iwi of Tauranga Moana for yielding to pressure from the Crown to sell the Te Papa block (stretching from the modern Tauranga central business district to Gate Pa), which the Church Missionary Society held in trust for Ngati Tapu and Ngai Tamarawaho.
Military Plan for Confiscation: The Te Papa block is cross-hatched at the north-east end of Tauranga Harbour.
“Otane Wamuku to Te Aroha mountain, Wairoa River, Katikati, Tauranga town and Harbour, redoubt, bush, Gate Pā”. Scale 6 miles:1 inch. Date: 1865. Archives reference: AAFV 997 Box 6 /[b] A52
Naboth’s stoning after refusing to sell illegally his ancestral vinyard
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons